40 years ago, on January 7, 1979, the Vietnamese People’s Army in
co-ordination with the Kampuchean United Front for National Salvation, deposed
Pol Pot, putting an end to the brutal Khmer Rouge regime, liberating Cambodia’s
capital city Phnom Penh.

By making a rare second trip this year to Vietnam, Defense Secretary Jim
Mattis is signaling how intensively the Trump administration is trying to
counter China's military assertiveness by cozying up to smaller nations in the
region that share American wariness about Chinese intentions.

In one of the darkest moments of the Vietnam War, the top American military
commander in Saigon activated a plan in 1968 to move nuclear weapons to South
Vietnam until he was overruled by President Lyndon B. Johnson, according to
recently declassified documents cited in a new history of wartime presidential
decisions.

Bui Tin, a North Vietnamese colonel who had a prominent role in the Vietnam
War’s final moments but later fled the country and became an unlikely critic of
its ruling Communist Party, died on Saturday in France. He was 90.

Việt Nam’s Defence Ministry has confirmed it will be sending eight naval
officers to participate in the Rim of the Pacific Exercise (RIMPAC) in Hawaii,
the United States, from July 1 – 31, at the invitation of the Commander of the
US Navy’s Pacific Fleet.